ARCHITECTURE AND ART DESIGN
We hope Japanese culture and design will be expanded the world and lead to the future. KURAMOCHI will take you to the Cutting-Edge of Japanese design.
Expand our state-of-the-art design to the world as based on Japanese tradition. There are many things to be proud of regardless of the times in the living culture that the pioneers have cultivated. It is simple, richness, and aesthetic sense is universal which were created by Japanese culture and craftsmen’s skills. We, KURAMOCHI based on “SUKIYA-ZUKURI ( 数寄屋造り)” style and will continue to inherit these traditions and build innovation while making cutting-edge global standard of living.
We hope Japanese culture and design will be expanded the world and lead to the future. KURAMOCHI will take you to the Cutting-Edge of Japanese design.
The Japanese have nurtured a creative culture by continuing to be a country for a long time. The Japanese have discovered “BI(美/beauty)” and have created wisdom and technology to enjoy life through the four seasons while respecting and coexisting with nature. Along with the aesthetic sense and techniques of craftsmen which are represented by the shadow, Japanese design are kept universal value regardless of the flow of the times.
We, KURAMOCHI will adapt the Japanese design that has been inherited all the time to the present lives, and we will continue to sublimate to the future tradition without ending the past culture. Japanese design will proceed from here.
Architecture and Art Design [Skelton-infill Housing and Furniture]
The foundation of KURAMOCHI’s architecture which consists of Japanese traditional “SUKIYA-ZUKURI ( 数寄屋造り)”. “SUKIYA-ZUKURI” made incorporates the construction of a tea room which born in harmony with nature. It is the expression of the space which is born by deep eaves and sliding doors making subtle light shades. Also, it is the refreshing and warmth of natural materials, because of the unique sensitivity of Japanese people, who can make such a pleasing and quiet appearance.
KURAMOCHI’s Infill
which incorporating the modern style into traditional Japanese architecture. Therefore, we KURAMOCHI will expand and spread to the world as new Japonism.
INTERIOR DECORATION
There are quite different how to enjoy Japanese space. “FUSUMA PICTURE(襖絵)”, hanging scrolls, books and etc., which are decorated in a simple “TATAMI(畳)” space making use of natural materials, touching the fragrance of traditional Japanese culture while reading the mind trying to convey the words and pictures.
In addition, there are pleasures to create a work that modernized traditional dyeing and textile technology to the features that make up the space, and tailor it to its own Japanese-style space. ‘Harmony’ of the sense of “ SUKIYA-ZUKURI” ’s craftsmen, the artists of traditional crafts,
and the people who choose those one. And then, one and only unique space will be born from here.
LIFE STYLE
There is a heart of hospitality derived from the spirit of the tea ceremony in Japan. It is important for the owner of the customers to feel comfortable preparing thoroughly thoughtfully about the customers. For people to meet and talk with each other for a cup of tea and meals,
the Japanese use tools such as vessels to relax the mind according to the scene. There are characteristic instruments which have been made in various parts of Japan since ancient times. And they have materials and manufacturing methods depend on that land, and each technique which were taken over until now.
MATERIAL
Japanese architectures are made by combining material such as wood, kaya and hinoki, bamboo and “Washi(和紙/Japanese paper)” and materials that create life, such as earth, plaster and stone. These materials which can keep comfortable living with moisture conditioning function, air cleaning function, heat insulation, heat retention, sound absorption, which are not found in artificially made materials. The Japanese live while feeling spiritual comfort in the life itself of such materials and the gentle delicate expressions and warmth of the natural materials and refreshing.